Von Neumann Regular Rings

This Demonstration shows that the algebra of matrices over the rational numbers is a von Neumann regular ring. A ring is von Neumann regular provided that for every there exists such that . Every field is a regular ring, since , if . The simplest nontrivial example of a regular ring is an algebra of matrices over some field. If , then , so is an idempotent in . Similarly, is an idempotent. In Wolfram Mathematica, we get from by using the built-in PseudoInverse function.